Hi Bryan, OpenStack interfaces directly with ESXi hosts using vSphere API. Following operations are supported for instances running on ESXi host as compute node. 1) Instance spawn 2) Instance terminate 3) Instance suspend 4) Instance resume 5) Instance reboot Both FLAT as well as VLAN networking models are supported. Console support for accessing instances is also available. Hope this helps. Let me know If you are looking for more information on any specific features. ~Regards, Sateesh From: openstack-operators-bounces at lists.openstack.org [mailto:openstack-operators-bounces at lists.openstack.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Berry Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:56 AM To: Openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org Subject: [Openstack-operators] vmware vsphere 4.1 support in Compute? I can find vmware support listed in the feature matrix and this blog entry from Citrix http://wiki.openstack.org/FeatureMatrix http://blogs.citrix.com/2011/03/25/vmware-customers-heres-a-real-cloud-for-you/ As noted in the feature matrix, openstack interfaces directly with ESXi hosts and not with VCenter. Can anyone comment on how well openstack supports VM instances on ESXi hosts? I would very much appreciate your feedback as it will help me decide which hypervisor to use together with openstack. Bryan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/attachments/20110712/2ff1662e/attachment-0002.html>